Patents by Inventor James Arthur Strickland
James Arthur Strickland has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11957154Abstract: A tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. The tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Publication number: 20230247961Abstract: This disclosure provides a number of sequences involved in the transport of alkaloids from the root to the leaf in tobacco, methods of using such sequences, tobacco plants carrying modifications to such sequences, and tobacco products made from such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventors: Jesse FREDERICK, Yanxin SHEN, Dongmei XU, Ujwala WAREK, James Arthur STRICKLAND
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Publication number: 20230210161Abstract: A smokeless tobacco system include one or more silicone smokeless tobacco products configured to generally retain their shape during processing, shipping, and consumer handling. Each silicone smokeless tobacco product can comprise a moist smokeless tobacco in combination with a silicone binder such that the final product has tobacco exposed along an exterior surface and is configured to have material properties providing improved handling, an improved mouth feel, and a satisfying flavor profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. MISHRA, Frank Scott ATCHLEY, James Arthur STRICKLAND
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Publication number: 20230094995Abstract: An oral tobacco product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix and tobacco fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral tobacco product can be formed by extruding a mixture of mouth-stable polymer and tobacco fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Feng Gao, Frank Scott Atchley, Gregory James Griscik, Christopher Joseph Dinovi, Phillip M. Hulan, Diane L. Gee, Munmaya K. Mishra, James Arthur Strickland
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Patent number: 11576423Abstract: Some embodiments of a smokeless tobacco system include one or more silicone smokeless tobacco products configured to generally retain their shape during processing, shipping, and consumer handling. In particular embodiments, each silicone smokeless tobacco product can comprise a moist smokeless tobacco in combination with a silicone binder such that the final product has tobacco exposed along an exterior surface and is configured to have material properties providing improved handling, an improved mouth feel, and a satisfying flavor profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Frank Scott Atchley, James Arthur Strickland
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Patent number: 11540554Abstract: An oral tobacco product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix and tobacco fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral tobacco product can be formed by extruding a mixture of mouth-stable polymer and tobacco fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Feng Gao, Frank Scott Atchley, Gregory James Griscik, Christopher Joseph Dinovi, Phillip M. Hulan, Diane L. Gee, Munmaya K. Mishra, James Arthur Strickland
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Patent number: 11452275Abstract: This disclosure provides a number of sequences involved in the transport of alkaloids from the root to the leaf in tobacco, methods of using such sequences, tobacco plants carrying modifications to such sequences, and tobacco products made from such plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Jesse Frederick, Yanxin Shen, Dongmei Xu, Ujwala Warek, James Arthur Strickland
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Publication number: 20220167658Abstract: A tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. The tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur STRICKLAND, Frank Scott ATCHLEY
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Patent number: 11252988Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Publication number: 20210274830Abstract: The invention features tobacco compositions and methods of their use and manufacture. Compositions of the invention may be based on a variety of technologies. Technologies include films, tabs, shaped parts, gels, consumable units, insoluble matrices, and hollow shapes. In addition to tobacco, compositions may also contain flavors, colors, and other additives as described herein. Compositions may also be orally disintegrable. Exemplary compositions and methods of their manufacture are described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur STRICKLAND, Frank Scott ATCHLEY, James M. ROSSMAN, Armand J. DESMARAIS, Scott A. WILLIAMS, Tod J. MILLER, Cherne W. JOHNSON
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Patent number: 11034936Abstract: Bacteriophage are provided, and methods of making and using the bacteriophage also are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Dongmei Xu, Elisabeth Miller, James Arthur Strickland, Ujwala Warek, Steven Hagens
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Publication number: 20210084852Abstract: This disclosure provides a number of sequences involved in the transport of alkaloids from the root to the leaf in tobacco, methods of using such sequences, tobacco plants carrying modifications to such sequences, and tobacco products made from such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventors: Jesse FREDERICK, Yanxin SHEN, Dongmei XU, Ujwala WAREK, James Arthur STRICKLAND
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Patent number: 10945454Abstract: The invention features tobacco compositions and methods of their use and manufacture. Compositions of the invention may be based on a variety of technologies. Technologies include films, tabs, shaped parts, gels, consumable units, insoluble matrices, and hollow shapes. In addition to tobacco, compositions may also contain flavors, colors, and other additives as described herein. Compositions may also be orally disintegrable. Exemplary compositions and methods of their manufacture are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley, James M. Rossman, Armand J. Desmarais, Scott A. Williams, Tod J. Miller, Cherne W. Johnson
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Patent number: 10813318Abstract: This disclosure provides a number of sequences involved in the transport of alkaloids from the root to the leaf in tobacco, methods of using such sequences, tobacco plants carrying modifications to such sequences, and tobacco products made from such plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventors: Jesse Frederick, Yanxin Shen, Dongmei Xu, Ujwala Warek, James Arthur Strickland
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Publication number: 20200196653Abstract: An oral tobacco product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix and tobacco fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral tobacco product can be formed by extruding a mixture of mouth-stable polymer and tobacco fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Aitria Client Services LLCInventors: Feng GAO, Frank Scott ATCHLEY, Gregory James GRISCIK, Christopher Joseph DINOVI, Phillip M. HULAN, Diane L. GEE, Munmaya K. MISHRA, James Arthur STRICKLAND
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Publication number: 20200146332Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur STRICKLAND, Frank Scott ATCHLEY
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Patent number: 10602768Abstract: An oral tobacco product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix and tobacco fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral tobacco product can be formed by extruding a mixture of mouth-stable polymer and tobacco fibers.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Feng Gao, Frank Scott Atchley, Gregory James Griscik, Christopher Joseph DiNovi, Phillip M. Hulan, Diane L. Gee, Munmaya K. Mishra, James Arthur Strickland
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Patent number: 10555551Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley
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Publication number: 20190387785Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur STRICKLAND, Frank Scott ATCHLEY
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Patent number: 10420366Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: James Arthur Strickland, Frank Scott Atchley